Chapter 31: Dogfight (5)

"Killed, our men rushed in." A combat staff officer beside Zhao Zhi pointed to the battlefield with a murderous sound and shouted, and everyone in the concealed fortifications picked up their binoculars and looked at the battlefield, only to see that the mixed soldiers of the brigade had rushed into the smoke and were rushing towards the deep position of the Japanese army, and the black battle flag representing the impact of the mixed troops had faintly crossed the defensive line of the melee and floated to the rear of the Japanese position.

The Japanese army is still resisting, in the face of the overwhelming offensive of the mixed troops, the volley strength from the deep defense line of the Japanese army is obviously not powerful, more than two-thirds of the Japanese tanks have become scrap metal, the Japanese army has not much to rely on, and what they can rely on now is only the blood in the body, but I don't know how long they can hold out. "Boom" "Boom" Thunder fighters that replaced conventional aerial bombs continued to bomb Japanese positions, but this time they bombed the Japanese army's rear line.

"Sir, let's retreat, if we don't retreat, it's too late, there are too many of them, our troops can't stop it, let's retreat and then look for an opportunity to fight with them." Keno Okamoto, with a command knife in his hands, stood like a statue in a rudimentary command post, surrounded by a circle of officers who were trying to persuade the troops to withdraw. As the first division commander of the rebuilt Sixth Division, Keno Okamoto, like most Japanese officers, hoped to achieve fame, but now his Sixth Division was facing a withdrawal situation, which made him somewhat unacceptable.

This was the first battle after the rebuilding of the 6th Division, originally thought that it was only to deal with the hundreds of thousands of indigenous rabble from Thailand and Vietnam, Okamoto Keno did not think that he could fight in one battle, he and the 20th Division combined just to form a confrontation with the enemy here, and then wait for reinforcements from North Korea to quietly land in Nagasaki, and then suddenly launch an offensive to flank the enemy on both sides. Unexpectedly, the other side not only suddenly launched an attack to take the initiative, but also put all the hundreds of thousands of indigenous troops on the battlefield at one time, coupled with the cooperation of the other side's air power, seeing that the defense line of his division had collapsed, Okamoto Keno had only one thought in his mind - to apologize for his crimes.

"Division Commander, what are you going to do? The 6th Division has not yet failed, and it is irresponsible for you to do so now. Before Keno Okamoto could pull out his command knife, he was rushed up by the staff officers around him and snatched it up. Someone needs to take responsibility for the defeat, if the division commander Okamoto Keno commits suicide and apologizes, few of the senior officers of the 6th Division will survive, and even if they can escape the pursuit of the thunder, the emperor will sentence them to death, so as the division commander Okamoto Keno must leave the battlefield alive.

"Your Excellency, the commander of the protection division, evacuate, and when the 20th division can't stop the enemy, we can't leave even if we want to, so let's leave now." A group of staff officers escorted the confused Okamoto Keno to withdraw first, and those wing commanders, group leaders, and squadron leaders were naturally not far behind, and each beckoned his heralds to inform the troops to retreat. While there were still the remnants of the 20th Division and the Tank Division fighting with the enemy, if they retreated faster, they might be able to return to Honshu Island safely.

The retreat of the 6th Division completely threw the 20th Division to the thunder, and the mixed troops, who had been under reduced pressure, began to shift all their attention to the positions of the 20th Division. "Don't think about saving ammunition, throw all the rockets in your hand for Lao Tzu." Dozens of Bazooka squads of mercenaries roamed the battlefield like ghosts, and the commanders of all Bazooka squads almost unanimously ordered their members not to conserve ammunition, but to bombard the rockets they brought to the Japanese firing points.

"Yaga, these cowards, cowards, how dare they retreat like this, Yaga." In the face of the enemy's increasing number of soldiers and increasing firepower, the senior officers of the 20th Division knew that the general situation had gone, and one by one they began to curse the people of the Sixth Division as cowards.

"Forget it, let's withdraw too, retreating to Honshu Island may still have a chance to block them." The general trend has gone, and the 20th Division has no choice but to join the ranks of the retreat. More than 1,000 Turkish-language interpreters recruited by Thunder shouted the news of the defeat of the Japanese army on the battlefield, and the mixed soldiers, who once again burst out with fighting spirit, were no longer busy entangled with the Japanese troops on the battlefield, but instead attacked the rear line of the Japanese army.

"Have the troops from Sanjun Mountain come out?" The changes on the battlefield were clearly seen by the reconnaissance planes hovering in the air, and of course Zhao Zhi in the forward command post also received the news, but there were no more available soldiers around him except for a group of staff officers and 100 escort mercenaries in the command post. However, Zhao Zhi still had a strange trick that he did not show, that is, the hundreds of thousands of mixed troops that he ordered to assemble in Sanjun Mountain early in the morning, Sanjun Mountain is located in the northwest direction of the Chaocang defense line, if the hundreds of thousands of mixed troops gathered in Sanjun Mountain are dispatched quickly, they will have time to block the Sixth Division that retreats first and then retreats.

Putting all the troops in his hands into the attack was a big gamble on Zhao Zhi's part, but according to Zhao Zhi's means of fighting, it was impossible for him not to leave behind, and the hundreds of thousands of mixed troops gathered in the area of Sanjun Mountain were Zhao Zhi's backhand. has spent such a big price to set up a position, Zhao Zhi will not sit back and watch the Japanese army swagger back to Honshu Island, to be able to defeat the Japanese army's two infantry divisions and a tank division in one battle, it can be regarded as part of Zhao Zhi's purge plan, after all, the main attacking force fighting with these Japanese troops is a mixed army, which can consume a large amount of Japanese vitality and those natives at the same time, why not Zhao Zhi.

It wasn't until Zhao Zhi opened his mouth to ask at this time that those combat staff officers around Zhao Zhi understood why his own husband would mobilize hundreds of thousands of mixed troops to assemble in Sanjun Mountain early in the morning, which had to make them admire Zhao Zhi's strategy, no wonder the people in the national army always said that if they were fighting with their own husband, they would need to have three heads, otherwise it would really be insufficient. If the Japanese army is compared to a turtle, then the mixed troops on the whole line have already knocked out the shell of the turtle, as long as the mixed troops of Sanjun Mountain block the turtle's retreat in time, then this pot of turtle soup is completed.

After learning that the troops of Sanjun Mountain had attacked, Zhao Zhi, who had been standing in the command post for three hours, finally breathed a sigh of relief and sat down. The Japanese army on the opposite side has begun to retreat, even if they have arranged a rear guard unit to intercept, but they are now facing a pursuit force with a number of hundreds of thousands, in the face of such a number of pursuing troops, no matter how good the Japanese army's rear guard unit is, in the end it still can't escape the end of being defeated, so the current battle for Zhao Zhi is basically the overall situation, and the rest is just waiting to listen to the battle report of the front-line commander.

Changing the habit of cleaning up the battlefield as soon as possible in the past, the mercenaries who cooperated with the mixed troops to fight would have already killed the red eyes one by one, and after this battle, there were many casualties among the mercenaries who cooperated with the battle. In particular, the machine gun cluster, which was supposed to be in the second echelon, suffered the greatest casualties, and their firepower was the strongest, and at the same time, they were the first target of the Japanese heavy firepower. Fortunately, in this battle, there were not only mercenaries, but also more than 100,000 mixed soldiers participating in the battle, and more than 100,000 people each stepped on it, and the entire battlefield was almost trampled into a playground, and the Japanese soldiers who were injured and fell to the ground naturally could not escape the fate of losing their lives.

"Don't pick things up, there are troops behind to clean up the battlefield and pursue, our task is to pursue." The mercenaries with high fighting spirit rushed more and more fiercely, and after defeating two groups of Japanese rearguard troops in succession, a mercenary force of 200 people had left the mixed forces far behind. Once upon a time, it was a small unit of the Japanese army that chased a large number of national troops to flee for their lives, but now it is completely reversed, more than 200 mercenaries are chasing thousands of Japanese troops and fleeing in a hurry, and the mercenaries who were once from the national army are now raising their eyebrows.

Throwing away their backpacks, taking off their heavy bulletproof vests, and throwing away their unnecessary equipment, the mercenaries, who only carried their weapons and ammunition, marched lightly, chasing the scattered large number of Japanese troops for more than ten miles, until the hundreds of thousands of mixed troops from Sanjun Mountain blocked the way of the retreating Japanese troops, and the out of breath mercenaries who were chasing stopped their tracks. They were tired, and the Japanese soldiers who were chased all the way by them were even more tired, and how could the Japanese army who had abandoned their heavy weapons be the opponent of hundreds of thousands of mixed troops, and after two hours of fierce fighting, except for less than 6,000 Japanese troops who chose to disarm and surrender, the rest of the Japanese troops who came to Kyushu Island to confront Zhao Zhi were all killed.

"The mixed forces suffered 47,000 casualties, including 42,000 killed in battle, and 3,200 mercenaries suffered casualties, with 1,100 killed." The casualties counted by the operational staff officer at the end made Zhao Zhi's face look very unpleasant. He wasn't worrying about those mixed natives, he was distressed about the mercenaries under his hands, there were only 10,000 mercenaries on the entire battlefield of Kyushu Island, and there were only 6,000 here in the Asakura defense line. Although this battle was won, completely annihilating two infantry divisions and one tank division of the Japanese army, Zhao Zhi suffered as many as 50,000 casualties, this price is cost-effective in the eyes of others, but in Zhao Zhi's opinion, it is a bit more than worth the loss, after all, the casualties of the mercenaries are larger.

"After bombing Nagasaki, Saga, Fukuoka, and Kumamoto, Thunder has already dispatched ground troops to land on the Japanese mainland three days ago to fight, and has now completely annihilated the Japanese army on the front line of Asakura and Hita on Kyushu Island to rebuild the 6th Division, the 20th Infantry Division, and the Honshu Island Tank Division, and will soon go north to Honshu Island to continue the decisive battle with the Japanese army." Zhao Zhi read the content of the telegram word by word, and everyone in the command post listened carefully to the content of the telegram with joy on their faces, holding their breath, this is the first time that Mr. Ji has announced the strength of the thunder to the world, and it is also the fangs of the thunder in the real sense to the world.